On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:43, David George wrote:
> Roy Murphy wrote:
>> > OK, tell me I'm crazy. I want to record OTA HD content and play it
> > back on my HD screen. I want to be able to burn DVDs. What should I be
> > looking for?
>> You're not crazy. However you can't burn HD DVD's until Blu-ray or
> HDDVD is available ;-) . You will need to transcode them before burning
> on a low-def DVD.
My observations are that with the HDTV I've recorded, it's a little over
8G/hour. So if you cut out the commercials, you can easily fit a
half-hour show on a DVD, and with the newer dual-layer recordable DVDs
you can fit an hour show. Note that Myth doesn't have support for
editing a video file without transcoding, but there are tools to do just
that with MPEG-2 files (such as from ATSC broadcasts or PVR-250
encodings).
Of course, this is talking about putting MPEG-2 files onto a DVD disc,
not creating something that will play on a standard DVD player. For
that, you have to transcode to lower resolution, as current DVD players
don't do HDTV resolutions.
--PC